John Brady Kiesling

John Brady Kiesling grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, graduated from Swarthmore College, and has a master’s degree in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archeology from the University of California at Berkeley. He has excavated in Greece, Turkey, Armenia, and Spain.

Brady served as a U.S. diplomat for twenty years, in Israel, Morocco, Greece, and Armenia, but resigned as a public protest against Bush administration policies in February 2003. Fluent in Greek, Kiesling now lives in Athens, where he writes and lectures. His study of far-left political violence in Greece, Greek Urban Warriors: Resistance and Terrorism 1967-2014, was published by Lycabettus Press. He is also the author of Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower (Potomac Books 2006).

Brady’s latest major project is the ToposText mobile app and website, a classics/archaeology free tool and text library for scholars and travelers.